The stony and devious lanes wound about the bleak hillside, passing here and there small, solitary cottages of whitewashed stone, with children, fowls, and dogs at the doors, all embowered in huge fuchsia trees.
Gus had a coop of rare fowls, who clucked wildly all the way, while Ralph, with the bust in his arms, stood up in front, and Jill and Molly bore the precious bedquilt, as they sat behind.
I put those canaries over there, they looked so well against the blue;" and Frank proudly pointed out some queer orange-colored fowls, looking as if they were having fits in the air, but very effective, nevertheless.
Their entrance into the yew-tree arbour surprised several fowls that were recreating themselves by scratching deep holes in the dusty ground, and at once took flight with much pother and cackling.
The speckled fowls were so numerous that Mr.
Fitchett, how are your fowls laying now?
He kept turkeys and guinea fowls, and was a most amiable man.
They found a small recess in the one nearest the base of the rock, with a pallet of blankets spread down in it; also an old suspender, some bacon rind, and the well-gnawed bones of two or three fowls.
Unlike chickens, female Red Jungle Fowls have no combs.
The first name comes from a Greek myth in which the goddess Artemis turned the grieving sisters of the slain Meleager into guinea fowls.
" It came to pass that the master one day said to her, "Grethel, there is a guest coming this evening; prepare me two fowls very daintily.
Then I get so hungry a Ham goes but a very littleway and fowls are like Larks to me——A batch ofBread I make no more ado with than a sheet ofparliament,and I can eat a Bull's head as easilyas I used to do Bull's eyes.
The isle was uninhabited; my shipmates I had left behind, and nothing lived in front of me but dumb brutes and fowls.
I saw two roasted fowls flying, they flew quickly and had their breasts turned to heaven and their backs to hell, and an anvil and a mill-stone swam across the rhine prettily, slowly, and gently, and a frog sat on the ice at whitsuntide and ate a ploughshare.
" It came to pass that the master one day said to her, "Grethel, there is a guest coming this evening; prepare me two fowls very daintily.
Then she was sent into the kitchen, and there she carried wood and water, swept the hearth, plucked the fowls, picked the vegetables, raked the ashes, and did all the dirty work.
You are next to nothing for me, but if you will promise me the fowls in your father's yard I will let you go.
(1869) POULTRY MEG was the only person who lived in the new stately dwelling that had been built for the fowls and ducks belonging to the manor house.
" And some fowls came.
"Come out on the roof with me," said the cat; and Rudy quite understood him, for the language of fowls, ducks, cats, and dogs, is as easily understood by a young child as his own native tongue.
